> It's Not All In Your Head (firstthings.com) I was certain that this was going to be an essay from Ross Douthat about his struggles with chronic Lyme. "All in

> It's Not All In Your Head (firstthings.com) I was certain that this was going to be an essay from Ross Douthat about his struggles with chronic Lyme. "All in your head"? The premier Catholic public intellectual magazine? What else could it possibly be? But I was wrong. It's a review of Ross Douthat's book about his struggles with chronic Lyme. A review that begins with several paragraphs of trashing Freud, including compelling and little-known historical detail of Freud's horrific diagnostic mistakes rooted in his turn-of-the-century scientific sexism. Followed by a flash-forward to the 1980s satanic ritual child abuse panic, concluding with a Scott Alexander-tier bit of jerking the reader around: "what if Freud was right after all?" Alright. Alright. I'm here for this.